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51. How to Train Homework Club Volunteers (2007)
A Frontier College Tutor's Guide
Authors: Sandra Huehn, Frontier College
Collection: Learning Materials
Frontier College developed this guide as an aid for those involved in training volunteer homework club tutors. The purpose of tutor training is to extend tutors’ knowledge, strengthen their skills and increase their confidence so they feel prepared to tutor. This resource guide has been designed for both new and experienced facilitators. Different groups can adapt these resources to reflect the needs and strengths of their particular students, volunteers and community. This guide contains the following information to help facilitators plan and design their training agenda:
- a sample training agenda
- a list of considerations to keep in mind when designing a tutor training agenda
- workshop modules which include some reading theory to explain when and why to use a certain tutoring technique
- hand‐outs for workshop exercises
Funders:
- Ontario Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
Added: 2008-03-26
52. Flu Pandemic Communications Toolkit (2007)
Your Life Is In Your Hands
Authors: Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
Collection: Learning Materials
This toolkit by the Canadian Public Health Association explains the steps we can take to help prevent, prepare for, and protect ourselves against the next flu pandemic. This kit is contains two sections: "Tools for Everyone" and "Tools for Organizations." The first section, "Tools for Everyone" includes background information on pandemic flu and practical steps to prevent and prepare for the next flu pandemic and protect oneself during a flu pandemic. The second section, "Tools for Organizations" offers a variety of tools to communicate the risk of a flu pandemic to employees and their families, clients, and partner organizations.
Added: 2008-03-27
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53. Provincial Models of Program Integration (2007)
Final Report
Authors: Patti Lyn Cheeseman, College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading (CSC)
Collection: Research Materials
In 2006, Ontario's College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading was funded to develop models of integration for the training and support of clients in the college sector in that province. This report presents the final phase of the project undertaken by this committee, entitled the "Provincial Models of Program Integration Project." The primary focus of the Models Project was to promote integration of academic upgrading, Job Connect, pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programming in colleges. The project was also intended to provide front line program deliverers in these program areas with a greater understanding of the services available to their clients.
Added: 2008-03-27
54. Stories and Activities for English 110 and 120 (2007)
Authors: Northwest Territories Literacy Council
Collection: Learning Materials
This resource contains eight stories appropriate for learners at the English 110 and 120 levels. These stories were either written by adult learners from the Hay River Learning Centre or used in adult literacy classes in the Northwest Territories. The stories that were written by adult learners were made into booklets and illustrated by local artists in the community. The stories range from high 110 to low 120 level. A Fry Readability scale for each story is included.
Added: 2008-03-28
55. Improvements... no less than Heroic (2007)
Harm Reduction and Learning in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Authors: Betsy Alkenbrack
Collection: Research Materials
This report presents the findings of a research project conducted over a two-year period by Capilano College instructors as part of their work with adults with “high-risk” lifestyles (including drug use, working in the sex trade, living with violent partners and being street-involved) at two learning centres in Vancouver’s downtown east side. The instructors who manage and teach in these centres wanted to learn more about the "Harm Reduction" approach for treating drug and alcohol addiction and how they could use it to improve teaching and learning at the centres. The philosophy behind this approach is that any change in a program participant’s lifestyle must happen on their own terms, at their speed, following a path that works for them.
This report is divided into three parts:
1. Literature review on "Harm Reduction" and lessons for literacy work
2. Research on "Harm Reduction" and lessons for literacy work in Vancouver's downtown east side
3. Conclusions and recommendations
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Added: 2008-04-23
56. Improving Essential Skills for Work and Community (2007)
Workplace and Workforce Literacy
Authors: Nunavut Literacy Council, NWT Literacy Council
Collection: Research Materials
In Nunavut and the NWT there is a critical need for greater awareness and better information about workplace and workforce literacy. Nunavut Literacy Council and NWT Literacy Council prepared this paper in order to provide information and analysis, and make recommendations about how to improve workplace and workforce literacy in Nunavut and the NWT.
Specifically, the paper provides some basic information and analysis on the following topics:
- Why we should care about workplace and workforce literacy;
- Workplace and workforce literacy participation;
- Nunavut and NWT stakeholders for workplace and workforce literacy;
- Nunavut and NWT economic, social and cultural context for workforce and workplace literacy;
- Elements of best practices for effective workplace and workforce literacy.
Recommendations are included in two appendices:
- Basic tools and resources for workplace and workforce literacy; and
- Summary of eight collaborative models.
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Added: 2008-04-30
57. Linkages: Connecting Literacy and English as a Second Language (2007)
Discussion Paper: What do we know about the Connections between Literacy and English as a Second Language in Canada?
Authors: Sue Folinsbee
Collection: Research Materials
This discussion paper highlights and summarizes current Canadian research over the last five to seven years on connections between literacy and English as a Second Language in terms of key themes, issues, gaps and needed strategies. The paper also reflects the perspectives of a small number of key informants from the literacy, English as a Second Language, and settlement fields on key themes. This discussion paper is part of a larger Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL) project entitled Linkages: Connecting Literacy and English as a Second Language .
The goal of the overall project is for MCL to work with national organizations that support the ESL/settlement and literacy fields to identify common issues and concerns and to document areas for mutual cooperation in the future. MLC is interested in the connections between literacy and English as a Second Language because of the incidence of low literacy for immigrants as indicated by the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey.
Added: 2008-06-09
58. Novel Study - Two Old Women (2007)
English 120
Authors: NWT Literacy Council
Collection: Learning Materials
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival is a great novel for the 120 level. It is approximately at the Grade 6 reading level according to the Fry readability score. In this story, the author recounts a story about hardship and triumph that has been passed on from mothers to daughters for many generations. This story is about two old women who are abandoned by their people only to realize their strength of will and determination to live.
This novel study provides learners with a variety of learning activities and handouts. It includes a pre-reading and post-reading section, and each chapter contains vocabulary lists, comprehension questions with answers, journal writing and reflection ideas, discussion questions, and extended activities.
Added: 2008-06-11
59. Environmental Scan: Literacy Work in Canada (2007)
Summary Report
Authors: Movement for Canadian Literacy
Collection: Research Materials
During the fall of 2007, Movement for Canadian Literacy conducted an environmental scan of the anglophone literacy field in Canada, gathering data through the use of key informant interviews and a literature review. The intent of this scan was to set the stage for a larger study of the sector. It was necessary to conduct this scan because much of the knowledge about literacy work in Canada is informal and anecdotal. There is very little research that provides a comprehensive picture of the literacy field, i.e., on who works in this field, how they got here, what training they receive, what their working conditions are like, whether the work has changed in recent years or is likely to change in the future, and what the field needs to do to prepare for the future.These are the types of questions that this study of the field attempts to answer. For this study the term “literacy sector” included organizations and people who do the work in the sector.
This report includes the following sections:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Setting the context
- The field of adult literacy in Canada
- Developing the literacy field as a profession
- Conducting the sector study
- Appendices - key informants and interview questions
Added: 2008-06-11
60. Literacy and the Labour Market: The Generation of Literacy and Its Impact on Earnings for Native Born Canadians (2007)
Authors: David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell
Collection: Research Materials
The study presented here examines the link between literacy, the economy, and individual income, the premise being that an individual with greater literacy skills would be expected to have better employment opportunities and command higher earnings. The authors begin by examining the distribution of literacy skills in the Canadian economy and how they are generated, looking in particular at schooling and parental influence. Next, they discuss the nature of literacy generation in the years after individuals have left formal schooling and are in the labour market.
They conclude by examining the impact of increased literacy on individual earnings, investigating both the causal impact of literacy on earnings and the joint distribution of literacy and income. For this study, the authors use data from the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey and the Canadian component of the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey.
Added: 2008-06-26
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